Monday, July 31, 2017

Bad Guy Beatdown Round 4 Results

The whiny voice of Megatron’s second-in-command shot out of his
communicator.“Megatron!I had triangulated its whereabouts and was on
the way there--”

“And?” Megatron shouted.

“It’s not my fault!The Autobots
intercepted me before I could get there!Your goons Skywarp and Thundercracker turned tail as I continued to
fight them, but it was no use.I was
forced to retreat for repairs!”

“Your cowardice knows no bounds, does it, Starscream?” Megatron said,
launching into the air.“I must have
that meteor, the metals contained within are impervious to Autobot
weapons.You find a source of materials
to repair yourself and the three of you meet me at its location in one
megacycle!”

“One megacycle?” Starscream screeched.“That’s not nearly enough time to repair the damage I sustained as I
valiantly fought--”

“Yes, Lord Megatron.”The indicator
on Megatron’s chest went out as the communicator shut off.The massive robot flew across the
countryside, surveying the radiation readings emanating from the space
rock.He could see no sign of the
Autobots near it.“Good, the meteor is
mine for the taking.” He said to himself as he descended into the valley the
meteor had crashed in.As he touched
down on the ground to claim his prize, a blue and orange helicopter crested the
other wall of the valley.

A voice came out from the hovering vehicle.“I don’t know who you are, but that meteor
and all its power belongs to me.”

“A human, challenging me for what is rightfully mine?”He spat out a laugh.“Come take it from me!”

“Gladly.”With a series of shifts and
contortions, the helicopter transformed into a sleek jet bristling with laser
cannons.

“An Autobot!” Megatron shouted.He
had never seen an Autobot with an aerial mode, much less a Transformer with two
alternate forms, but there was no mistaking one of his accursed enemies had
followed him here.Megatron launched
into the air to fight on equal footing.

Miles Mayhem had never seen a robot move so gracefully as it flew into
the air.Perhaps after he had destroyed
its pilot, he could salvage its remains for his own evil deeds.Even with its great maneuverability, he flew
Switchblade in circles around the mechanoid and easily outpaced it in a
pursuit.

He performed an Immelmann turn, flying up and rolling over to face his
adversary head-on.He triggered his
joystick and shot a barrage of laser fire from his front laser cannons.

The robot rolled out of the way and took a vertical position.“Your firepower is nothing compared to
Megatron!” He placed his left hand over the massive cylindrical cannon on his
right forearm and took aim at Switchblade.

Mayhem barely had time to avoid the massive blast of energy.He rolled Switchblade twice in the air in a
jerking motion, barely leveling out before hitting the canopy of the valley
floor.Another blast followed it, but
Miles was prepared and activated his afterburners.He flew towards the robot and launched a pair
of missiles just before passing it.

The two projectiles struck dead center, creating a massive explosion that
swallowed the robot.Miles shook his
fist in celebration, but dropped it as the robot appeared from the cloud of
smoke and debris.

“Enough of this!” the robot yelled before backflipping in the air.During the maneuver, his body twisted and
shrank in on itself until it resembled a massive floating pistol.Even without anyone holding the weapon, it
aimed at Switchblade and produced a stream of devastating energy.

The blast struck Switchblade’s left wing, causing Miles to lose
control.As the jet dropped towards the
valley floor, he pulled the handle at his side, reverting Switchblade to its
weaponless helicopter mode.

The robot expanded and changed back to his robot mode.Dropping down to the ground, he laughed out
loud.“Have you lost the fight
already?Come take me on in robot mode, so
I can crush you between my own servos!”

Miles wasn’t sure what the robot spoke off, but decided he had the right
idea.With Switchblade’s weapon systems
offline, the only option was to ram the robot and hope the collision would take
it off-line.Switchblade would similarly
be taken out of commission, but Miles knew he’d have no problem facing whoever
piloted it while Viper still worked.

Switchblade’s increased maneuverability in helicopter mode made evading
the robot’s cannon fire was a breeze for Mayhem.He weaved around each blast, steadily closing
in on his target.The robot must not
have expected such an unorthodox attack and recoiled, covering his chest with
the massive black cannon on his arm.Just before they connected, Miles ejected from Switchblade.

The explosion sent shrapnel showering over the valley and puncturing
Mayhem’s parachute as he descended.He
crashed through the forest canopy, but his fall was broken by the undergrowth.He climbed out of the tree line to survey the
damage to his opponent.

The robot survived the kamikaze attack, though his right arm, and the
cannon mounted on it, had had taken the brunt of the damage.The weapon had been blown clear off and the
robot’s hand and forearm were reduced to a twisted metal skeleton.

“A human?” the robot screamed.“You’ll pay for that, you miserable flesh-bag!”The robot raised his mangled arm as if to
bring it down directly on top of Mayhem.

“Viper on!” A stream of highly corrosive acid shot out from Miles’s mask,
glowing hot.It connected with the robot’s
wrist and instantly began eating through the surviving metal.

The robot recoiled as the acid sprayed down his arm and towards his
chest.Miles turned on the scanners
within his mask and searched for any other weak points in the robot’s
construction.Though he could not find
any obvious cockpit, he spotted a chamber in the chest that had to hold something
vital. He tilted his head down, bringing the stream of acid across the robot’s
torso and eliciting a cry of pain from the mechanism. Miles smiled as he
assumed Viper had melted into the pilot’s cockpit within the robot’s
chest.“I had hoped to salvage your
robot when I defeated it, but if I have to melt the entire thing to slag to
secure the meteor, so be it.”

A giant metal hand swung in from the side and grasped Mayhem before
yanking him up into the air.The sudden
movement startled Mayhem into deactivating his mask and the acid stream petered
out.The robot lifted him up with its
left hand, threatening to crush him within its grasp.Miles tried aiming down to melt through the
massive fingers that bound him, but the structure of his mask kept him from
firing so close to his body.As he came
up through the air, Miles found himself face-to-face with this so-called
Megatron.

“Nobody does that to me and continues to function, robot or otherwise!”

As Miles drew breath in to activate Viper once again and melt the robot’s
face off, the hand jerked closed and his body exploded into a fine red mist.

This﻿ battle turned out a lot closer than I thought it would be. While Megatron obviously had a huge advantage with his size and firepower, Switchblade's maneuverability in both jet and helicopter mode kept Miles safe for a while. Miles's only real advantage is his Viper mask, which has demonstrated the ability to melt through even alien metals, so Megatron's Cybertronian body was not impervious to it like most Earth weapons. Still his size and strength was too much for Miles to handle and brought Megatron to a delightfully messy win.